A gas main break today at the campus -- home to Stabler Arena and athletic fields -- forced the cutoff of gas to 255 homes nearby along the Lower Saucon Township-Bethlehem border, UGI spokesman Joe Swope said.

Swope said the streets affected include Woodfield Drive, Friedensville Road and Skibo Road.

Crews will begin restoring lines to the neighborhood about 4 p.m. and then relight customers' appliances.

"However, we are going to need to get into each individual home to do this," Swope said. "We're probably going to be there most of the night."

If a customer is not home, crews will leave contact information to call and have someone from UGI dispatched to safely restore service. Crews need to bleed the gas lines and ensure no pilot lights are lit before restoring gas, Swope said.

"We're going to have technicians there and we're going to work as quickly as possible," he said.

A 6-inch-diameter plastic main was struck during excavation in one of Lehigh's athletic fields. A 911 call alerted UGI just prior to 9 a.m. and the plastic main was shut off by 9:45 a.m., Swope said.

Swope was unaware of any evacuations and said no one was injured.

"From our understanding this was in the middle of their sport field complex so it was pretty much out in the middle of a field," Swope said.

Jennifer Tucker, a university spokeswoman, said to her knowledge, there weren't any events happening at Stabler so there was little impact at the campus overall.